 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1841 - 552 pages
...Penn, instead of taking advantage of its weakness, boldly declared ; "we confess ourselves to be so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assembling...be able to divert us from reverencing and adoring the God who made us." To this Richard Brown replied, you are not here for worshipping God, but for... | |
 | William R. Wagstaff - Society of Friends - 1845 - 506 pages
...tongue ; I did not go about to ensnare you." " We confess ourselves," said William Penn, " to be so far from recanting or declining to vindicate the assembling...from reverencing and adoring our God who made us." The sheriff, Richard Brown, said, " You are not here for worshipping God, but for breaking the law.... | |
 | Joseph Barker - Pioneers - 1847 - 332 pages
...silence upon pain of imprisonment. — Silence in the court. Penn. We confess ourselves to be so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assembling...from reverencing and adoring our God who made us. Brown. You are not here for worshipping God, but for breaking the law : you do yourselves a great deal... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 726 pages
...— Sir, hold your tongue ; I did not go about to ensnare you. Penn. — We confess ourselves so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assembling...from reverencing and adoring our God who made us. Alderman Brown. — You are not here for worshipping God, but for breaking the law : you do yourselves... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Pennsylvania - 1849 - 444 pages
...the place and time mentioned. Their object in being there was to worship God. " We are so far," says he, " from recanting, or declining to vindicate the...from reverencing and adoring our God, who made us." These words were scarcely pronounced, when Brown, one of the sheriffs, exclaimed, that he was not there... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1851 - 520 pages
...be commanded. — The crier having made the usual call, Penn proceeded : We confess ourselves so far from recanting or declining to vindicate the assembling of ourselves to preach, to pray or worship God, that we declare to all the world, we believe it to be our indispensable duty... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 580 pages
...Penn. — We confess ourselves to be so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assemblage of ourselves to preach, pray, or worship the Eternal,...from reverencing and adoring our God, who made us. Brown. — You are not here for worshipping God, but for breaking the law ; you do yourselves a great... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...Penn. — We confess ourselves to be so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assemblage of ourselves to preach, pray, or worship the Eternal,...we do believe it to be our indispensable duty, to moot incessantly upon so good an account; nor shall all the powers upon earth be able to divert us... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 360 pages
...vindicate the assembling ourselves to preach, to pray, or toworship theeternal, holy, and just God, we declare to all the world that we do believe it...from reverencing and adoring our God, who made us." He was then told that he was there not for worshipping God, but for breaking the law. The recorder,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1867 - 370 pages
...court, Penn desired that silence might be commanded, and then proceeded : " We confess ourselves so far from recanting or declining to vindicate the assembling of ourselves to preach, to pray, or worship God, that we declare to all the world we believe it to be our indispensable duty... | |
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We confess ourselves to be so far from recanting, or declining to vindicate the assembling of ourselves, to preach, pray, or worship the eternal, holy, just God, that we declare to all the world, that we do believe it to be our indispensable duty to meet... 
